Treading on Dreams. Stories from Ireland
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Oxford Bookworms Library, 2008. — 103 pages.Irish writers have long been famous for short stories andthere is a rich variety in this volume. On the windsweptwest coast of Ireland a boy and his grandmother welcomea stranger; in a Dublin bar two men discuss a woman. Amother struggles to live with the pain of a child’s death;a failed musician drowns his sorrows in whiskey in NewYork. Then there is the fisherman who caught no fish;a small boy who gets cross with his father; and a girlwith long black hair, cycling down the mountain road toher first party, with hope in her heart. And the wish inall their hearts might be, in the words of the poet W. B.Yeats, ‘Tread softly because you tread on my dreams’.Contents:Note on the language.Mr Sing My Heart’s Delight - Brian Friel.Irish Revel - Edna O’Brien.The Third Party - William Trevor.Delivery - Lorcan Byrne.My Oedipus Complex - Frank O’Connor.Men and Women - Claire Keegan.Lord McDonald - Eamonn Sweeney.A Fishy Story - Somerville & Ross.Glossary.Activities.About the Authors.
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